LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hunting for Divers
MUDEFORD inshore rescue boat and a R.A.F. helicopter were called out on I9th July to search for two aqualung divers who had failed to surface after diving between the Groyne, Hengistbury Head, and Christchurch Ledge buoy. The divers were...
Category: Services
Centenary
The schooner Centenary, of Liverpool, bound from Coleraine to Glenarm, anchored in Skerries Boads at 8 A.M. on Saturday, the 30th September, during a very strong gale of wind. At 5.30 on the following evening she showed signals of distress...
The Last of a Famous Life-Boat Crew
BY the death, on 20th May last, of Mr.
Charles Verrion, of Ramsgate, at the age of 85, passed away the last member of the famous Ramsgate Crew which carried out, just over fifty years ago, one of the most remarkable rescues...
Category: Obituaries
Marigold
APRIL 22ND. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. Early in the afternoon a sailing yacht was seen making towards Whitecliffe Bay with her sails damaged. She was kept under observation by the coastguard and lifeboatmen.
A strong N.W....
Wildgoose
Eastbourne, Sussex. At 9.45 on the morning of the 13th of July, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that a small yacht was anchored in heavy seas in Pevensey Bay and her crew appeared to be in...
Dorothy Watson
WHITBURN, Co. DURHAM.—While the schooner Dorothy Watson,of North Shields, was being towed by a steam-tug in company with another vessel in a S.E. wind and a strong ground swell and surf on the 10th July, she was caught by the breakers and...
Helicopter down
10 May: Aberdeen and Peterhead's all-weather lifeboats were called upon when a helicopter carrying oil rig workers crashed into the North Sea. All 14 of the helicopter's passengers and crew made it to the liferafts. Aberdeen lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Hagar
Barrow, Lancashire.—On the afternoon of the 17th February, 1938, the coastguard reported that a small boat was adrift abreast of Hilpsford Buoy, but that it was impossible to say if there was anyone on board. A N.E.
breeze...
Blakeney Dawn
TOW FOR MOTOR CRUISER FOUND BY LIGHTVESSEL The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 10.5 on the night of the 12th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen about six miles east-south-east of the Scar...
Energetic £300K
Scottish and Southern Energy has committed to donating £100,000 a year to the RNLI for the next 3 years.
The money will be spent on crew training at Aldeburgh, Harwich, Lowestoft and Southwold lifeboat stations....
Category: Articles